The Clone Vote

Updated Aug. 3, 2001 5:08 p.m. ET

I fail to see the logic behind Paul Gigot's assumption ("Hastert Wrestles Bush Agenda Back to Life") that this week's vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to ban cloning is a "Bush win". It is anything but!

For President Bush to succeed in the long run, his agenda must be premised on ideas that are free of the kind of ideological frenzy that this vote and the Journal article on stem cells 'reverting to embryos' ("Antiabortion Group Claims Stem Cells Can Revert to New Living Embryos")...